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PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
What i: and What it 2 Part
of the State System of Public Education
v
4 ts Doing as
College fre ty
quent
i
k that, if it were
upon
f ihe great lines « Hrougn trav.
ie
if
re hundreds or thousands dally
ing t wld see the extent and
wr (
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ia
besuty of its grounds, and ¢«
fo exuiniae the excellence of ils €«
men together with the
quality of its work,
doup
Wi
estimation
ihe
held
y Lhe propis Of
Phere is doubtless a messu
ies ie
ts 1}
remark, out, on tie
vers
the
i ak
hie location has great
its unusual beauty
aud its freedom
fu line
ys College
Of
r difficult
ri w=!
ia “
mode
one of the most singuis
table errors respecting the
to it
duty of
Feaniid
Dit
reference
te aud the
tuitie
titled
nent
For
absolutely
them
tion, as will be show!
brief ou line of
lege aud the course
gpecting it.
The College w
for instruction in practic
There
a considerabie pre
against the wo
where young men
form
usefulness,
afterwards explained, the
#1
vas Lthouy
judi
HRMMONE farmers
as a piace
Pp to
h than
4 ’s
d ‘Uollege,
were supposed
habits of
aud for that
Pp
idleness rather
FERSOI, BA8 Was
institution
was called the Farmer's High School
of Pennsylvania land
as a site for the ipstitution were offer
ed in several parts of the State and,
after a very careful examination bya
f
Douations of
committee consisting of Governor Pol
lock, Judge Watts and Dr. Elwyn, the
Board accepted the gift of 200 acres in
Ceutre county from General James Ir-
vin, to whieh it soon after wards added
by purchase 200 acres more.
The institution looked
from the first as belonging to the peo-
ple of the Commonwealth. The Gov-
Wns upon
ernor, who was by the charter made a
mefuber of the Board of Trustees, pre-
sided at its first meeting, in
ge ecting » location and in many ways
showed Lis active interest in the enter
prise. All worked together for a com-
mon public interest, aud the Legisia-
ture co-operated by making what were
in those days liberal appropriations,
For the purpose of providing the nec-
essary funds for erecting and equip-
ping building, the State Agricultural
Society gave $11,865, the Trustees rais-
ed $25,000 by subscription and the Leg-
fslature, in 1857, appropriated $25,000,
absolutely, and $25,000 more on condi-
tion that a similar amount should be
raised by private subscription, which
wae done, the entire amount sabserib-
eo und raised by the Trustees, being
$34,785 In 1861, the Legislature made
an appropriation of $40,900, for the
completion of buildings, though the
fustitution had been opened, February
20th, 1859, with such accommodations
as were then available in one end of
the present Main Building.
The scheme of instrucddon was put
upon a collegiate basis from the begin.
ning.
stated, in 1862, that “the school, on
being organized, adopted a course of
fnstruction in Mathematies and Nat.
ural Heiences more extensive than that
assisted
’
Cost
A
$150,000—Gi
fe ml raw 3 ¥ vege / PP
il A NGTEW irl nel ' 3
required a correspondingly longer time
for graduating, and that the Trustees
only awaited the time in which they
de its
build-
Accordir
nge iis
three years after it
name was changed
nns
had
tural College of Ps
1
3 the
1874, after
a the Aet of Col
Slate
I ess
WOrK
d
that
fan
By
Niates
ion,
tat
recommendation of the Rarveyor Gen-
e
eral, consolidating all the bonds in
which the j seeds of
Wo the sales of land
wen invested into a single
scrip had |
f SU OO,
Act
egisiatur
i i rr y 11 f
bond rihe sum of 3
hese successive 8 of C
MI ress,
and of the A-
{ Pennsyly
rightly interpreted
I'h
only
¢ pu
LAN 2
CE
I
COMMENCEMENT
6, 1904,
CLOSE WEDNESDAY.
The commencement exercises
gone through almost to the
scheduled in the published program
were
letter as
The weather throughout was fair, and
the attendance fully
above, the average
were
than at any previous time
up; and possibly
it
from
said there
is
more visitors a
The alumni luncheon, as is usually
(jeneral
f the
the case, was well attended,
A. president OF
board of Was nster,
Brief addresses were made by Prof,
Gill, who spoke for the faculty ; A, A
Pitt
James Beaver,
trustee s, toast
Patterson, of burg.
the
Heckman,
represented
association ; He Edgar
for the ecitizet Wade
Hampton Barnes, of Brooklyn, for the
President Athert
LO,
alumni WY,
33
Eradusling Class |
} iustitution’s ned
In the Junior
prize was awarded Paul M,
BpoKe of Lhe
Oratorical contest
aim
Liaceyville, Pa
The d
Miller, of
to
countLy.
The
Openin
Kiliott
Was a it
1 ' $
elegates elected (on
Venaugo county
1 Judge G
BU COB
sommencement address, “The
Future" by William
is, of Ithaca, New York,
f the exercises.
“Hou
bay
o£ Rev,
Caril
ure
adding Teal
HIALION «
The pres
ouble’ by
THE GRADUATING CLASS
seventy -one Young Men and Two
Women Begin Life's Work
Young
nt exercises
for the new
During the ¢
of 1903, ground was broken
MEHMMenCeins:
Agricultural building, provided by an
act of the legislatare of May, 1803. One
section of this building —devoted to
and is now
When completed the group
main agricultural
the front of the
in ti} picture | a
dairying—is a realization,
in
will
building
use,
of a
forming
shown
consist
group, as ne
dairy building in the rear, congected
with the main building by a corridor,
and a building for the respiration-calo-
rim ter, with the main
building.
The building for
calorimeter is already in use,
connected
the respiration-
The con-
tative in Congress, for the purpose of
aiding io the establishment of Col
leges, based on the idea which
had already taken form in Pennaylva-
nia, in the establishment of this Col-
lege,
same
In 15863 the Legislature of Pennsyl-
vania sccepted the grant, By the
same Act the Legislature appointed
{the Governor (Curtin,) the Auditor
General (General Hartranft) and the
| Burveyor General (General Campbell)
ia Board of Commissioners, with fall
{| power to dispose of the land scrip,
{and directed that, as soon as an io-
| come should begin to accrue from any
investment of the proceeds of the sales,
{ they should pay over the samme to the
Trustees of the Agricultural College of
Pennsylvania, on the ground ex press.
ly stated in the Act—that the College
was then actually giving the kind of
instruction required by the law of
Congress,
Three years 'ater (April 11th, 1866)
{off a debt, contracted in the erection
| and equiptaent of the original building.
i
|
|
of
struction the main building will
complete the group, and wiil be one of
the finest agricultural buildiogs in the
United States,
The buildings are in the Italian style
and contain two stories above a high
basement. The base is of Hummels.
town brownstone, the superstructure
of a rich Roman brick with terra cotta
trimmings. The buildings are being
constructed in the most substantial
manner and will fireproof
throughout.
The corridors and work rooms in the
Dairy Building have tiled floors and a
tile wainscot six feet nigh, the remain-
der of the interior finish being of red
be
intent of Congress, The
1583 a careful
filling the
committee presented in
and elaborate report which sustained
and the of the
Trustees,
commended policy
In 1887 the Henate committee on ap-
propriations visited the College and
were unanimously of the opinion that
the State could no 'onger Le justified
im neglecting to make provision fora
more liberal and worthy compliance
with the conditions upon which the
congressional graut of lands had been
accepted. At that time all the work
of the College was carried on in the
single building thst had been erected
when the Lostitution begau its work,
The Committee clearly saw that the
vide additional buildings and equip-
each Legislature has made appropria-
tions either for new buildings or for
the repair and modification of old ones
and (toa less extent) for maintenance,
The aggregate of these opriations,
37 an aver.
Authorized by the State at a
oak. A
college |
with the
eating plant serves to bring
high and low pressure steam and elec-
tricity the building, heated and
ventilated by the Sturtevant system.
The machinery is operated by electric
but high steam for
operating steam turbine separators is
also while the laboratory
will be supplied with gas from a gaso-
line plant
The basement of the Dairy Building
contains a room twenty-two by forty-
four feet for instruction in private
dairying, a workshop twenty-one by
thirty-five feet, two cheese curing
rooms, one with refrigerators, a fan
tunnel conoecting
{to
power, pressure
provided,
been ex pended in creating a perma
nent plant of which many generations
of students wil! receive the benefit,
This leaves a total of $202,420, or an |
average of $12,051.25 a year, which has |
been appropriated for the maintenance |
of various branches of instruction not |
sufficiently provided for by the United |
States funds,
Second, that even these considerable
appropriations are far less than many
other and less wealthy States have
been regularly making during the
same period, for a similar purpose, and
must be considered as practically cover-
ing a period of thirty-six years instead
of sixteen, since the State during the
twenty years from 1867 to 1887 appro-
pristed not a single dollar towards the
maintenance of improvement of the
College—its only appropriation being |
on= of $80,000 00 for the payment fa
mortgage which it had twelve years |
before authorized to be placed on the |
original property. This would give |
‘an average annual appropriation from |
1867 to 1908 of $25,602 34, for all pur-
| poses, for which the State has a great
(and valuable permanent plant, worth
| today every dollar of the entire aggre-
| gate of its appropriations.
Cost of $100,000.
and an ice machine room.
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5
3
a Uw utter room,
f.
i
main floor is the
ur by thirty-five
d wash room, a
irty-f el, and in-
large refriger-
Tie
i
commodious toilet and locker
milk bottling room and office,
second floor contains a large lec
t room, thirty-four by forty-four
feet, a small lecture room, twenty-two
ure
by thirty-five feet, a milk testing labo-
ratory, iwenty-two by thirty-two feet,
and offices for the Professors of Dairy
Husbandry and of Agricultural Bae-
teriology.
Ample storage room is provided in
the attic, and a large lift connects all
the stories,
New Alexandria
unkie, East Berkies
1 El Elder's Ridge
Fenstermacher, Danville
¥ Garay,
vin Temple Heck,
r Elwood Ketcham, 3
Jomeph Morrissey Franklin
Paul Olin Noble, Banydert
Abram Br $
Irvin Pres
ay Cook
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“4,
ty
Asa Truman \
CHEMISTRY
sy Andrews, State College
Van Reed Evans, Cacoosing
tn Allen Fox, Hughesville
oberi Harvey Lyons, Union City
William Harvey MeCune, McKeosport
Thomas Jacob Moser, Mahaffey
Mahlon Jacob Rentschier, Centreport
Charles Henry Swanger, Lebanon
MINING
Hall Maclay Crosman, Harrisburg
William VanGundy Detwiler, Uniontown
Paul Gray Elder, Philipsburg
Harold Coulter George, Warren
Broce MeCamant, Haivismng
ht, Allegheny
Horatio Cadwallader Ray, Tyrone
George Thurston Smith, Mauch Chunk
AGRICULTURE
Wade Hamplon Bares, Brookiyn
Willis Ray Gorham, Condersport
Norman Greenwalr Miller, Chambersburg
Alvin Kubns Risser, State College
LATIN SCIENCE
Bertha Viola Gilliland, New Bloomfield
Francis Elerd Pray, Jersey Shore
GENERAL SCIENCE
Evan Petit kiljugren, State College
Clyde Griffith Thompson, Clearfield
BIOLOGY
Thomas Charlton LeFevre, Chatham
PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE.
What
¥
it for the You
State
is Doing th of This
YIVARLIA
ist compli
sl
all
| and
OW =
ad-
ier
as
wwe provided
ne for each
Bins i Parse 4 ha
£ a rial 04 Ve Oe
awarded by the Governor of the Com-
are
of
and
are satisfae-
monwealth., These sg
*holarships
or the entire lege course
MIF PAY ’ seh 13 eh ks
Our ye are, pt aed £1 conduct
lara} £3
iarsaip of the hol
In of
tricts they are awarded by
representing it, subject to
each the
He dis-
the Seastor
such exami-
nations or other tests as he may ap-
natorial
That these facts are becoming
recognized is shown by the very rapid
increase during the past few years in
the number of students enrolled. Last
year 200 students were admitted to the
Freshman class and between thirty-five
and forty to the sub-Freshman or pre-
paratory class. Another noticeable
feature of the growth of the past few
years bas been the increasingly large
number of students in attendance who
tare either wholly or in part dependent
upon their own resources.
In the sharp competitions of actual
business and professional life the gradu-
ates of themselves
fuliy able to hold their own, and have,
in not few instances, achieved ex-
ceptionaily brillinnt success, It is no
mere figure of speech, but a matter of
cold ealealation, to say that the power
of many young men of Pennsylvania,
personally and professionally, has
been multiplied a hundred fold, and in
some cases many hundred-fold, by the
| training they have received at the
State College.
this college find
a
These young men come very largely
| from that powerful middie class which
| in add the history of Pennsylvania lias
{made the strength of the Commons
wealth--its bone and sinew, its heart
and brain, They come from families
that represent industry, intelligence,
enterprise and good citizenship. They
represent parents who believe that the
best heritage they can leave their sons
and daughters, next to a good exams
ple, is a good education, and many of
whom are making every possible sac
rifice to that end. They have been
trained to habits of self-help and look
upon the college as a meaus of prepar-
ing themselves for greater usefulness
Total number of graduates, seventy
and efficiency.